Tato neobvyklá kombinace akademického vzdělání mu umožnila zaujímat autoritativní stanoviska k různým aspektům a teoriím moderního umění, zvláště k americké variantě abstraktního expresionismu, kterou pomáhal formulovat ve 40.
Jeannie Motherwell, second generation Provincetown painter, is at the top of her game as she throws red, blue and black acrylics on a wet surface, creating layered textures that call to mind an explosion of pent-up anguish.
Jeannie Motherwell's work pits generation against collapse, and are as capricious as light flashing on water. They pin us with similar intensity — a moment of coming to be that will just as soon vanish. —Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe